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Please note that recently I have been on a lot of vacations. If I haven't responded in more than two days, I am away. Thanks, DatGuy

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Edit on Insteon Page

Hello, my edits on the Insteon page were constructive as the page was written off a deceptive pieces of documentation. Insteon has had various security flaws and it appears that they have all been edited out of the wikipedia page. I attempted to fix only some of the lies on the page. The insteon wikipedia page reads like marketing. A well known security researcher did a short talk on Insteon documentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy1LTQLmPtM How would you recommend that I reword my edits. Thank You

The issue is the wording. Instead of adding 'this is however untrue,' just doesn't fit Wikipedia. You could add 'According to security expert x, this statement is false because of xxx.' Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs

Reference errors on 17 August

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John Glashan

Er . . . I'm sure that this edit of yours was well-intended, but the drivel that you resuscitated had been rightly deleted. Consider just its start: In 1889 Glashan Public School (Ottawa, Ontario) was named after the painter/writer in honour of his great work. Decades before the person in question was even born. And it gets worse from there.

Here are the other edits by the IP who added the drivel. An IP very rightly removed this crap. (No edit summary, but was an edit summary really necessary?) Ah, then look what I dream of horses then did.... Hoary (talk) 01:37, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Hoary: No explanation for my reversal, other than I too, make mistakes. -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @ 03:48, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I make them too, I dream of horses. No hard feelings. That said, however, recently I have noticed a pattern: (1) somebody adds infantile material to an article; (2) IP deletes this, with no edit summary; (3) established editor [almost-] automatically reinstates it. This is of course a pity in itself, but I suspect that it could be worse than this: that at least some of these anonymous, taciturn crap-removers are dabbling their toes in editing for the first time and potentially are creative as well as restorative editors. (Of course this kind of criticism is easy for me to make, as a glance at my edit history will show that for every one of my own garbage removals, another editor may be making dozens of restorations, the great majority of which are of restoration-worthy material.) -- Hoary (talk) 05:00, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Hoary: Thanks for noticing. It would've really helped if the IP editor gave an edit summary (not trying to say I didn't make a mistake, I did), therefore I gave him a notification about edit summary on his talk page. Cheers, Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 06:49, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

DatGuy vs Datguy

I am pretty inactive on Wikipedia, but I noticed today that it allowed you to create DatGuy even though I've had the Datguy account since 2014 (pay no attention to the fact that I never created my user page). What's more troubling is when I logged in today I had two alerts that look like they were meant for you (mentions in other people's talk pages). Is it common for Wikipedia to confuse users this way? Datguy (talk) 16:30, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Datguy: Really? What were the notifications? And hello, brother. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 16:32, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DatGuy: Greetings, DatGuy! I looked further, and it appears it was user error - in both cases they pinged me in their first edit then corrected it in the next edit:

So it looks like there's no problem, other than possible confusion. It's not a new problem though; I have an old post on my (neglected) blog about various Datguys on the internet... Datguy (talk) 17:16, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Datguy: Thanks for the diffs. Also, does that mean that we have a big family? :D. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 17:24, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New article: Juan Battle (living person)

Hi Template:Ping: datguy: You added a header that read: This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find link tool for suggestions. (August 2016).

But this is not an orphan article. there are dozens of links within the article. I am not sure what you are missing but I made sure there were ample links introduced. Sociology is linked. Several grant institutions are linked as well as non profits. And several categories of sociological study are linked. I reverted your edit, ok? Before we go back and forth, I wanted to reach out on your talk page. Thanks for your cooperation! --sheridanford (talk) 20:31, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@SheridanFord: The template states 'as no other articles link to it'. That is different than a deadend tag, which says that you should introduce links from this article to other articles. Also, you re-added the template with this edit. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 20:36, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

With this edit, you basically changed it back to what I edited (including the commas, etc.) and just added a reference and some words in the lead. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 20:41, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

--Reply to: DatGuy Got it! My amygdala got away with me. I misread your note. This was my first article creation. Appreciate your help! Apologies for getting triggered. Thx --sheridanford (talk) 20:47, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@SheridanFord: Anyone said triggered? ;). Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 20:50, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 15:59:59, 20 August 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Cheveners

Cheveners (talk · contribs)
- User:Cheveners/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Cheveners (talk) 15:59, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hullo DatGuy,

Sincerest apologies for disturbing you!

Through this entry 'Cheveners' I wish to share with the Wikipedia users about the word 'Cheveners'. In old England, it was a trade-craft. People who used to embroider on hosiery or lace were called as Cheveners.

I did submit a lot of significant references. I really want to learn from you why is the article 'Cheveners' as an entry in encyclopedia isn't acceptable in the present way.

I do recognise that I am making mistakes. But a little hand-holding in the initial stage will be really helpful and much appreciated.

But there is a modern meaning, as recent as couple of decades, but caught up only in the past couple of years. Chevening is a programme like Fulbright. The awardees are called Cheveners. I have given only one citation of a British government website. Many more could be given. Many modern Cheveners, around the world, are serving parliamentarians, leading authors, heads of state etc. So, the word has a clear significance.

Later, I will update more information and citations of the old usage.

I am reproducing the details of my entry after my name.

I look forward to help.

With every good wish, Cheveners

There are scores of informal groups of Chevening scholars, fellows, and alumni on various social media like LinkedIn, facebook, etc.

In many countries there are more than one formal groups registered with various country-specific government registering/regulating authorities, eg., Registrar of Societies, Registrar of Trusts, Registrar of Companies etc. Such formal groups are generally territory (country) or theme (eg environment) oriented only.

Cheveners UNITED is the informal, inclusive, independent, and complimentary confederation of positive minded Chevening scholars, fellows, alumni, and our groupings. We embroider synchronisation, integration, and leveraging of our individual & united energies. We better the world. We do this via, inter-alia, strengthening relationships with the UK and advancement of mutual social, professional, and personal lives.

The group first debuted on WhatsApp, as a group of Chevening alumnni from India, on 16th January 2016. Within a short period of time, it emerged as the largest and the most communicative group of Chevening alumni on any mobile chat application in the world, with a typical chat history of about 100 pages a month.

As a response to increasing number of requests from Cheveners outside of India, especially from China and Africa, it soon adopted a global outlook. While the WhatsApp group continues to be for India, Cheveners UNITED started new country specific groups, on other mobile chat apps like WeChat for China & Hong Kong SAR, and another one for Russia, and the republics of the Former Soviet Union.

While the mobile chat app presence of Cheveners UNITED is country / region specific, all other presence on other social media is for Chevening alumni from the world over.

Some examples of these are: Blog: https://cheveners.wordpress.com/https://cheveners.wordpress.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cheveners/https://www.facebook.com/groups/cheveners/ www.facebook.com/cheveners www.facebook.com/cheveners LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Cheveners-10310326/about https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Cheveners-10310326/about Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cheveners https://twitter.com/Cheveners @Cheveners

Email: chevenersunited@gmail.com

Website: www.cheveners.org http://cheveners.org

Past Activities of Cheveners UNITED 1. Online

1.1 Greeting-cardsCheveners Greeting Cards The group has collaboratively produced six greeting-cards on various occasions, eg Easter, since January 2016.

1.2 Directory It has privately-published an online abridged directory of the members of Cheveners UNITED

1.3 Mini BookCheveners MiniBook on World Camera Day The group has privately-published a collaborative Mini Book on the World Camera Day titled Cheveners Camera for the Soul: 15 Human & Animal Stories for Childlikes & Adults By 16 Childish Scribes & Shutter-Bugs!

2. OfflineCheveners Walks The offline activities have been, obviously, location specific. The group members have gone on two heritage-cum-environment walks.

3. Cheveners songThe Song of Cheveners of All Earths The Cheveners song titled The Song of Cheveners of All EarthsThe Making of the Cheveners Song was produced collaboratively by Cheveners. Its first offline live performance happened at the official residence of the British High Commissioner to India on 3rd June 2016 on the eve of the World Environment Day.

@Cheveners: See referencing for beginners and citing sources for how to properly cite references. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 16:02, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Fungo Mungo etc

Hallo, When you find something as obviously CSD-A1 as Fungo Mungo, please don't bother to add {{stub}}. That adds it to Category:Stubs where someone will waste time looking at it to see how to stub-sort it. Thanks. PamD 10:55, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian Ambassador is another example. PamD 11:16, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@PamD: Apologies, I'm attempting to clear the CheckWiki backlog while also doing an AWB run. Thanks for spotting them! Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 11:18, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm now doing one at a time but I do not recall all of these additions.... Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 11:30, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ya right, sources

I was expecting another admin to reply there m, instead I got a wise ass message from you. I doesn't need to have sources, it needs to be changed. Si don't give me that crap!, you are now on my enemy's list, now fix the mistake now, wise ass! 70.192.22.67 (talk) 19:06, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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 ::{{replyto|PamD}} Apologies, I'm attempting to clear the [[WP:CheckWiki|CheckWiki]] backlog while also doing an AWB run. Thanks for spotting them! [[User:DatGuy|Dat Guy]]<sup>[[User talk:DatGuy|Talk]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/DatGuy|Contribs]]</sub> 11:18, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 ::I'm now doing one at a time but I do not recall all of these additions.... [[User:DatGuy|Dat Guy]]<sup>[[User talk:DatGuy|Talk]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/DatGuy|Contribs]]</sub> 11:30, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
+== Ya right, sources ==
+I was expecting another admin to reply there m, instead I got a wise ass message from you. I doesn't need to have sources, it needs to be changed. Si don't give me that crap!, you are now on my enemy's list, now fix the mistake now, wise ass! [[Special:Contributions/70.192.22.67|70.192.22.67]] ([[User talk:70.192.22.67|talk]]) 19:06, 21 August 2016 (UTC)